Versatile Blogger Award

by limebirdkate

Woo Hoo! Thanks to the wonderfully interesting Chris James , I have been treated with the Versatile Blogger Award!

To follow through on the acceptance, I must thank the 6’4″ left-handed fellow that nominated me; copy and paste the award logo in my own blog; tell my readers seven random facts about me; nominate 15 other blogs that I follow and let them know.

Okay, well I just accomplished the first two items–but thanks again, Chris!

7 facts about me:

I’m left-handed (sorry to steal yours, Chris, but it’s such a good random fact!)…

…and no one else in my family is left-handed which leads me to believe I have the subject for my next novel.

I am related to Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president–hmm, wonder if he was left-handed?)

I have a not-so-secret crush on Ewan McGregor

I rescued the following animals from my dog (not all at the same time): a bat, a snake, a baby bird, a snapping turtle, a box turtle, an oppossum, the neighbor’s cat, an albino toad, and a partridge

I make real eggnog every Christmas (basically that’s a dozen eggs, a couple cups of sugar, 3 pints of heavy cream, some milk, loads of bourbon and rum, and nutmeg to taste. Delish!)

My husband and his brother once went fishing and accidentally caught an eel–and I’m the one who had to take the hook out of its mouth because the two men were too scared

27 Comments to “Versatile Blogger Award”

Woop! Congratulations LimebirdKate, well deserved. How random that no one else in your family is left handed! I am a weird one because I do things with both. I eat and pick things up with my left, I write right handed, but snowboard left handed and fight (martial arts) left handed. Very strange…

Hah, I loved Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge!

Anyhoo, well done again and we are very lucky to have you on the team!

They are both marsupials, but they differ after that. For the life-science inclined I believe (not certain here) that they have the same kingdom, phylum, class, and order, but differ on family, genus, and species.

To be confusing, opossums are colloquially called possums. However, opossums are the ONLY marsupial native to the US – possibly all of North America. There are a few in Central America, not sure if they make it up to the bottom of North America, but I don’t think so (it’s been a LONG time since I’ve studied this).

I think they do kinda look the same – a bit rodent like, prehensile tails (great word – prehensile). The opossum (at least the type we have in the States) is actually the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana). I assume it was first “discovered” in Virginia (now my home-state).

Now, since I’m officially “Versatile” (and since you asked – and probably now regret it) I don’t mind sharing all this, I am a plethora of totally random opossum-related trivia. I did a research project on them as an undergrad. I think I mentioned a paper that had no passive voice in it. Well, it was about opossums.

I am laughing hysterically right now. Of all the trivia to have your hands on, it would be about opossums! And I didn’t know that opossum differed slightly from possum. I just thought possum was an abbreviation of opossum, like ‘possum.

Yes, I did. They don’t always play dead first – depends on how they’re cornered (if they have time, for instance).

My dog (when I was growing up, not the one I have now) got into a standoff with a GIANT one. It was nearly as big as him, but definitely lighter weight. The dog was about 30# (no idea how big that is in metric, sorry). Anywho, my dog didn’t know what to do with a critter that didn’t run when he came up to it, so he starts barking at it and it starts hissing. I heard the barking and went to the back door to see what was up. There was my dog looking back at me with an expression that clearly said, “Why doesn’t this thing run from me? Please fix it!”

Oh, that’s not the only totally random trivia I have. I can go on and on about fruit flies too – or statistics. I also know way more that I ought to about the Mojave Desert (or is it Dessert? I can’t spell).

Alas, when it comes to clothes, shoes, fashion, recognizing people, spelling, hair, and makeup (along with some other things) I am horribly out of my element. I guess I wasn’t ever going to be girly, was I?

Congrats on the award, LimebirdKate. Wow, that’s amazing, rescuing those animals from your dog’s gaping maw. (I think ‘maw’ is a word. I think it means ‘huge mouth’. Anyway.) My dog is a critter killer, and he’s very fast, but I try. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I won’t list the animals/birds he’s killed, but once he was chasing a bunny and i screamed and had a huge fit of hysterics in front of him. Distracted him just in time. He looked at me like I’d lost my mind, then wandered away.

Bunnies are the worst! Unfortunately, my first English Setter did catch a bunny. I wasn’t the one home at the time, it was my husband. Fryar (my dog) was in the midst of tearing it apart…well, maybe I should just stop right here, eh?

Congrats on the award, Limebirdkate! I’ve always been slightly envious of lefties – it seems so novel and I always associate left-handed people with creativity. Thank you kindly for the nomination! I’m honoured!